Guilt vs. Shame: How to Tell the Difference
Guilt and Shame are Not the Same Many men know the feeling, like that knot in your stomach or the persistent voice in your head telling you something’s not right. Maybe it’s a nagging [...]
Silence Your Inner Critic and Release Your Toxic Shame
Before we can release ourselves from the grasp of toxic shame we need to be able to silence our inner critic as this is what is whispering to our toxic shame and making it grow. Many [...]
Tips to Shift out of Toxic Shame
As I discussed in the two previous blog posts about the different types of shame and how to recognize them, this post is about how to heal toxic shame once you realize you are struggling with [...]
How to Recognize Toxic Shame
First Steps In the previous blog post, I described the differences between healthy and toxic/unhealthy shame. In this post I will use the terms toxic and unhealthy interchangeably in reference to [...]
Healthy Shame Vs. Unhealthy Shame
Shame is a complex emotion that is often associated with negative experiences, such as guilt, embarrassment, and humiliation. However, not all forms of shame are created equal. Some forms of [...]
